Category: Minnesota
The Quack Museum
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/16Oct23-Quackery-Museum.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We’ve all heard that some things are just too good to be true. That’s in a sense the theme to…
The Minnesota Hoosiers Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/13Oct23-Marshall-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Most of us are familiar with the movie Hoosiers, the story of a small Indiana school that wins the state…
The Story of Those Yellow Trucks
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/12Oct23-Marshall-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Depending on where you live, you may know this company, not by where it is located but rather by where…
Industry Impacting Southwest Minnesota
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/10/11Oct23-Marshall-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The land that surrounds a town often has a big impact on the types of industries that will spring up…
The Jolly Green Giant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/08/08Aug23-Jolly-Green-Giant-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Just about all of us have seen a picture of the Jolly Green Giant. But have you ever seen what…
A Reason to Stop Off Interstate 90
An interstate can help connect a town to others, but it may also provide a way for motorists to zip by a place without stopping…
Surviving a Blizzard on Christmas Candy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/31Jul23-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are tales of locusts that consumer the crops and a blizzard so bad that a man had to hunker…
The Dugout on Plumb Creek
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/28Jul23-Laura-Ingalls-Wilder-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Early pioneers sometimes did not have the means or resources to build a house on the prairie. They instead created…
The Wilder Pageant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/27Jul23-Wilder-Pageant.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This outdoor theatre has been taking place since the 1970s. It’s hosted in a very small town and is all…
The Fame of Charles Lindbergh
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/25Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s hare do describe just how famous this man had become. It’s estimated that in the late 1920s one in…
Seeing His First Airplane
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/24Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Do you remember seeing an important event for the first time when you were a kid. That was the case…
Boy Charles, The Inventor
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/21Jul23-Lindbergh-Little-Falls-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes kids, even from an early age, will give you a glimpse of what they might do or become as…
Albany, Minnesota’s Pioneer Days
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/29Jun23-Albany-Pioneer-Days-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are lots of places you can go to see classic tractors. Most are well done and many have a…
The Small Town Event that Became a Big Time Attraction
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/28Jun23-Albany-Pioneer-Days-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One September weekend each year you can count on about 20,000 to 25,000 people to attend an event in central…
A Keen Eye for Undiscovered History
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/06/27Jun23-Albany-Pioneer-Days-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)John had a job, but he also had a keen eye for what he saw while doing that job. For…
Origins of 3M
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/05/08May23-Two-Harbors-Minnesota-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Roll back the clock to the late 1800s and the people of Two Harbor, Minnesota would tell you this company…
The Mighty Edna G
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/05May23-Two-Harbors-Minnesota-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There are many people that tout a variety of diet plans. We may have a new idea to add to…
Twenty Boat Pile-up
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/04May23-Two-Harbors-Minnesota-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s been over a century since one major storm hit the shores of western Lake Superior. However the twenty plus…
Sailing to Norway – The Long Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/25Apr23-Viking-Ship-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On the surface it seemed to be a ludicrous project. A man with no experience building boats, was going to…
Visions of Viking Ships
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/04/24Apr23-Viking-Ship-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Robert Asp had a dream to visit Norway someday. It was, after all, the land where his family traced their…